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After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.

Brian K. Vaughan

There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Feels Late Teach
After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Hollywood Ideas Years
I’ve always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Case Fantasy Horror Scenario Worst
Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, “Avengers assemble?” “It’s clobberin’ time?” “Hulk smash?” Nico: “Try not to die.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Cry Guy Rallying Trying
I’m the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian’s from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it’s worked like a goddamn charm.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Factor Mention Names Talking Two
No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Adventure Cowboy Play
I know I’m a grumpy old man, but I’m always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be “elevated” into another medium.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Adaptation Men People
Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person’s hands, and I don’t think many screenwriters can say that.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Hands Thinking Writing
The longer I’ve been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you’ll just be disappointed. You can’t force them to draw every image that’s in your head.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Artist Giving Writing
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Artists Editors Stories
Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Character Issues Winning
A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Artists Letters Scripts
Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger’s doorstep. No matter how we’re eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Eventually Everyone Same Strangers
These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it’s true to life.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Knowing Life Stand True
We’ve all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they’re all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Adventure Boys Female Two
My mom once told me that a good relationship isn’t where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Better Feel Good Mom Relationship

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